VariatioTis of Eos inscata. 61 



Molucclie' (pi. i. p. 266), has expressed his opinion that the 

 principal characters of the young of Eos fuscata are — the 

 acuminated form of the I'cctrices, the double band across the 

 throat and breast not well distinguished, and the pale general 

 colour. But in his catalogue of the Psittacidre (Brit. Mns. 

 Cat. vol. XX. p. 31) he gives as a characteristic feature of the 

 young the yellow colour " where the adult bird is red." 



The examination of the specimens belonging to the Turati 

 Collection does not lead me to the last conclusion of Count 

 Salvadori, though it is not impossible that a yellow-coloured 

 young bird might pass into a red-coloured adult in some 

 cases. 



Dr. St. George Mivart, in his magnificent 'Monograph of 

 the Lories^ (pp. 41, 42), is inclined to regard Eos fuscata as 

 "a " dimorjihic bird," and Wallace, as quoted by him, admitted 

 two distinct varieties of this species. Finally, Dr. Ant. 

 Reichenow, in his 'Vogelbilder aus fernen Zonen, die 

 Papageien ' ^, figures the adult Domicella fuscata as orange- 

 coloured. 



I now give short descriptions of the specimens of this 

 Lory in the Turati Collection. 



(fl) No. 16249. Mansinam [Laglaize). Nestling (??).— 

 General colour saffron-red ; the double baud across 

 the throat and breast not well defined ; band on 

 the nape indistinct, and passing gradually into the 

 rusty-red colour of the hind neck ; lower back and uro- 

 pygium impure yellowish white; interscapular region 

 rusty brown ; central tail-feathers with their inner webs 

 largely red ; all the rectrices acuminated. 

 [b) No. 4124. New Guinea [Verreaux). Young ( ? ?). — 

 The red colour on the lower parts more restricted than 

 in the preceding specimen, and inclining to orange on 

 the abdomen ; the bands on the nape, throat, and breast 

 not well defined ; interscapular region dark brown, edged 

 with greyish ; lower back and uropygium more distinctly 

 yellowish white; tail-feathers acuminated, the central 

 ones with a narrow red space on the inner web. 

 * Fig. 9, tab. 31 (edit. Kassel, 1878-83). 



